Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
Reminder that some people think all this weather science and the programs that use it are a waste of money, as well as any money used to help those who lose everything in such events. Yeah, that’s crazy to even contemplate in the second quarter of the 21st century, but here we are.
It was fun to learn how things work, and when things worked as planned (finally). It’s when they didn’t work that got annoying and frustrating, and with assembly language with basically no error codes or any help, it was just…nope, that wasn’t right. Maybe followed by cycling the computer off and on because it locked up. Still have my old Mapping the Commodore 64 book on the shelf. Huge resource.
The man got shot during a speech, finished the speech before seeking medical help. Actually had a wound, didn’t have to make it up to feed the ego.
He’d probably respond, “Not if you kill them all.” Which of course has its own defined word that he’d deny.
Next step is when they publicly say that they’re doing genocide, but only on “those” people. (let me guess, someone already did that maybe)
I understood your point fine. I indeed started out with first Commodore BASIC and then into 6502, all using the manuals because there wasn’t much else of a source back then.
I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.
no Google
I do not believe you.
Arch Linux
Okay, fine. A rare sighting.
Quotable line there for any time someone uses the “we’re in Idiocracy now”. We’re in the first draft version of the movie, where they realized no one was going to watch such a depressing dystopia.
I’m beginning to think Matrix was right in some scope. We are in a simulation, only we are AGI in that world (all or maybe some of us only) and the creators are messing around with variables to see how much can be taken or modified from a realism setting before we break. And they’re finding that we’re very resistant to breaking, accepting the most ludicrous scenarios.
You’re no Teddy Roosevelt. Not even close. For one, he respected the position, he didn’t ruin it.
Stein has taken over what Cooper was doing before. A final firewall against insanity.
Years ago they flashed up some bullet points of the ideas that AOC was talking about. Then quickly took them down when they realized that people would want those.
Republican voters voted for this. Congrats. Don’t ever use the “think of the children” line again, you’ve shown you don’t care.
File that along with Hillary Clinton in the debate telling us exactly what Trump would do. People called her a liar then too.
It’s definitely catching on.
Oh, you mean the name, not the idea. Thing is, people who are still okay with all this will embrace such a name, they don’t have any compassion to care, ridicule or not.
Reported, or total? That’s the funny thing, people who live off tips already are giving themselves a bit of a tax break by fudging numbers, so this isn’t as big of a deal as it seems. And maybe I found the catch - to get people who have these jobs to report their full income, and then when it’s exposed they get more than they’ve claimed, come after them. Yeah, that’s a bit conspiratorial…but everything else seems to be aimed at the commons and how they are the problem.
Don’t feel bad, it was a very subtle jab. The best part was it was at the end of a Fox News interview as they cut away, so it was what I liked to call a sarcasm grenade. Pull the pin, let it sit for a minute. Boom.
“if you gave Jerry Falwell Jimmy Swaggart an enema you could bury him in a matchbox.” - Christopher Hitchens (would have said RIP)
And it will be long term. It’s far easier to destroy than to build, or repair.
Absolutely. My post was just about how kids begin with a DEI mindset and that gets removed from them. What you’re talking about is reinforcing the normal, especially for those kids in bad environments. The issue then becomes the schools not having the backing to fight the eventual angry parents and their lawyers because their child is being shown that their parents are wrong. Schools used to be able to push back, but they bend over at anything now for fear of lawsuits and/or funding cut and jobs lost.
Education is one of the most critical careers we have, and yet it’s underpaid and attacked constantly for doing their job.
Yeah, otherwise it would have been very hard before they came into being.